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These majestic beings will mark the last customs of the year from me. I wanted to go out with a bang this year. And after all the struggles I’ve had with my over loaded mind and being ill for about two months straight, I wanted to let my hands and mind do whatever they wanted. No holding back in any way or form. It’s very rare that I have time to work on something as detailed as these two.

It has truly been a blessing and a treat to my mind and soul. Now there’s still an awful lot stuck in my head, but I can breathe again. As for next year I will be working on more big projects like these.

It is my first year running as a business and the first year that Tomodachi Island has meant a great deal to our finances. That is why it has been so stressful. I have hit new highs and new lows this year, but it is all a learning curve right? Next year will be much more structured. There will be allot of small pieces in bigger batches but also room for big beauties like these.

WIND ELEMENTAL

Most of the time I haven’t decided on the colour schemes of a custom until I actually start painting it, and I’d say that 95% of the time I end up going in a completely different direction from what I originally planned. I had so many colours in mind for the Wind Elemental. Since the sculpt is so complicated a mix of too many colours could have ruined it though. So I went with a really soft blue gradient with white and brass details to give it that almost angelic look. I’m so proud of it!

WATER ELEMENTAL

This is where I really had to put myself out of my comfort zone… When I had finished the water and all the blue tones, it was all just too…..blue. I felt really lost to be honest. But as I have drawn, painted and tattooed a million Japanese inspired tattoos, the answer was just around the corner.

I haven’t painted a peony in so many years now though and it was quite daunting to paint something like this again. I have just gotten so used to sculpting everything these days. It was like a whiff of fresh air though and made the whole piece pop. Definitely the cherry on top of the cream.

I’m guessing you want to know where and when you can get your mits on these beasts now?! Well as per usual they will be available at my Big Cartel Store this Thursday 13th of December at 4.00 PM London Time! Preview is available now, so head on over and have a little looksie!

I also want to take the time to wish you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! I am signing out for 2018 and am looking forward to a crazy 2019 with so many awesome things happening that I just can’t wait to tell you all about!

2018 has been sooooooooooooo good! But 2019 I am convinced will be my best year yet!Thank you all for your continuous support, without you I would be nothing!!!!<3

Oh I’m so excited to present my very first collaboration to you guys! I made it my mission this year to approach as many people, that I admire, as possible. Kurobokan was on my list but came to me before I had a chance to come to them! This gave me a massive boost and I was so excited to receive six little Sleepwalker Offspring’s in my letterbox one day! I mean come on, how darn cute are they?!?!??!??? I received them a while ago and have been so eager to get them painted, but I had many other jobs to finish first. This weekend I took two days rather than just one to work. I have allot on at the moment, and no I am not complaining! I am super happy with all the work I get, so don’t get me wrong. I couldn’t even have dreamed of some of the things I’ve got going on! But since time is short on my hands it can also be very stressful. Being creative constantly does take a toll on you weather I’d like to admit it or not….. But that is a story for another time, now I just want to show you these little bundles of joy and be very proud of what I’ve accomplished. So here goes…..

My main objective was to create a nice gradient not only on each individual piece, but I wanted them to look like a gradient standing next to each-other too. So I started with spray painting them in the scale I thought would look nice. I tend to stick to certain colours that appeal to me and pink is something that is always reoccurring in my creations. It’s just such a beautiful colour and it really works with everything! I tend to stay away from black however, but since it was the best contrasting colour to white I had to get out of my comfort-zone and go black black black…. Might do more of that in the future. Black is after all my favorite colour to wear, so I shouldn’t really be as affraid of it as I am…. maybe?

I must say that my love for Sofubi is just growing bigger and bigger, and so is my collection of them too. They are so unique and special and like nothing else out there. I don’t think you can fully appreciate them until you hold them in your hands or maybe that’s just me…

Either way, I feel very honored over the opportunity to work with Kurobokan and hope that we can do more amazing collaborations in the future!

Now to the part which I’m guessing you’re a bit more interested in! Where and when can you get hold of one. Well as per usual they will be available from my BigCartel Store on Friday the 28th of September @ 9.00 PM BST! They will be priced at £130 with Free World Wide Shipping of course! Previews are up now!

First of all, I am so sorry about the lack of Blog Entries this year. Seems I’ve really fallen behind on that part. But on the other hand, I’ve been able to create some amazing customs this year, and I promise that when time presents itself I WILL sit down and write about them all.Now, this one, this one I just had to post as I think it’s one of my best customs this year.

I struggled so much with the original platform by Jermaine Rogers. Don’t really know why, but I found it hard to envision what it could become. So I used a different approach this time. Rather than making a creature I’d thought up in my head I just started “sketching” with sculpey and slowly his character became more and more clear to me.

The Toketsu Mountain Tigers roam the snow covered mountains of Toketsu. They are very large creatures with bad vision. With the bad vision and those tall legs they often get themselves into some tricky situations. This one managed to step right trough the roof of a Galaxy Bunny Burrow. The Galaxy Bunnies burrow into the mountain and this is where they spend most of their days. Even though the inside of the Toketsu mountain is an adventure of its own, it can get a bit dull when you get used to it. So naturally when something unexpected happens, like a huge furry foot coming through the roof of your house, it needs to be inspected. Now being a huge tiger with bad eye sight, suddenly covered in little starry critters can be pretty daunting as you can see by his expression… Maybe we get to follow the story of these four a little closer in a near future….

The Toketsu Montain Tiger and his starry friends is currently on his way to NYC to participate in the show “Falling Apart” which is curated by Martian Toys. It’s a big custom show with the Jermaine Rogers platform as a base. I think it will be an amazing show and I have seen some pretty mind blowing customs so far. So if you have the chance to participate on the 4th through to the 7th of October I can highly recommend that you go and see them in person. NYCC booth 488, Martian Toys!

Hey guys and galls! It's time for my very first Custom Omen Mini Series! Wohoooo! I've had so much fun getting back in to molding and casting. Spent allot of time casting during my holiday in Wales and I can't wait till we can find a house and I can set up a proper work-shop where I can work more with casting and by doing so give you more opportunities to own one of my creations. Finding a house has proven hard though, but I am convinced our future home is out there somewhere!

Anyway, back to these little treaures! This is Blossom, and there are three of her available as well as the rest. Yeah three of each colour way, and that's it. I've had great fun creating the colour gradients and I am constantly pushing myself to try new things.

I would never had dared to use that blue on Winter Flowers face a few years back, not a chance! But taking risks also means that you can end up with something as beautiful as this. This is definitely one of my favorites as it's so different from the rest.

Same goes for Autumn Flower here... I was set on the bronze tones from an early stage but I really struggled to choose a complementary colour. In the end I went for a mint green and a pistachio highlight for his face. It's really made the bronze pop and this guy looks so much better in person. It can be so hard to capture their colours and shapes on film. You just have to see them in person to appreciate them fully!

I think Spring Flower speaks for it self. Definitely a colour palette I've used before, aside from the brass. I think it's got a very asian feel, almost like a silk kimono and I love that about it. All in all I'm just very pleased with all of them and I can't wait to make the rest.

These guys will go on sale tonight! Yes, TONIGHT 31st of July at 9.00 PM BST! In my BigCartel Store as per usual. And they will be ready to ship during September at some point. So be there tonight and make sure you don't miss out! I don't know when I will have this many Omens for sale again! ;)

I've finally taken the opportunity to customize one of my most favorite designer toys, and not only one, but SEVEN Omens! I could not help myself when Coarse released the "Omen - Help!" series. They were just screaming out to me to be customized! The plan was to have these finished before Christmas (!) Yeah that didn't happen did it! I am to much of an optimist, or was, that is. I have now learnt that I can not put a time limit on anything after having two kids. I have to take each day as it comes, and if I'm lucky I get to do my work one day a week. No wonder these took so long to finish.

These are the most favorite platform I've worked on and they're also the customs I am the most proud of ever. I rarely value my work very high, I guess that's just part of me being very critical when it comes to my own creations, but these I value very high. My best work to date! And I'm not afraid to say so.

As you can see I was inspired by the different stages of day and night. I don't find the day very mesmerizing at all, but when it comes to the sun rising and setting it takes my breath away many times. And even though the night terrifies me, I also find it extremely enchanting and beautiful.

So I searched the internet for colour palettes that would suit my mysterious little bird creatures and these were the ones I chose in the end. I also wanted to add a complementary precious metal to each one of them. I ended up using gold for dawn, bronze for dusk and silver for twilight.

My greatest struggle were the "Twilight's". As I am used to working with brighter colours and pastels, the dark colour scheme was very daunting. The great thing about it is, that it has opened up my mind towards darker colours and I'll make sure to use them more often in the future. They look so enchanted and that wouldn't have worked without the deep dark tones.

These darlings will be on sale from Friday the 23rd of March at 9.00 PM BST, over at my BigCartel store as per usual. I know that the release is further away than I normally then to put them. I wanted to make sure that everyone gets a chance to prepare themselves for this release as they've already received and awful lot of attention.

All of them are up for preview with prices in my STORE. So head on over, have a look and prepare yourselves for what will probably be my biggest release of 2018! I don't really want to see them go (hahaha) but an artist and her family's got to eat too, so there we are...... I shall let them spread their wings!

"In the shadows of Tomodachi Island he dwells. No one knows where he came from or who birthed him. A seemingly hideous creature hidden by the night. He carries within him a golden heart and a piece of the starry night sky. This celestial creature with his gentle soul is believed to be a creation of the ancient Gods themselves."

My first sculpt of 2018! It took me long enough... But what a treat it has been. A treat to my hands and my soul. As most of you know we've had another baby, so I get very little time to do any artistic work at all. So I've decided to use the little time I've got very well. As you can see I've been focusing on fine detail and the sculpt is much more intricate than what you usually see from me. I sculpt for me now, and I will from now on. The importance of my work has never been greater to me and as an artists I am ready to grow. This sculpt gave me the chance to do so.

This creature will be part of the show "Misappropriated Icon" by StrangeCat Toys at Redefine Gallery, FL, on the 15th of March through to the 22nd of March, 2018. And it is part of a group show with some AMAZING artists, many of whom I've looked up to for a very very long time. I feel so proud, being part of this great lineup indeed!

This creature have taken many turns in my head and I re-painted him twice before I was happy with the result. At first I was inspired by the norse God Fenrir, and that is where the sculpt was born. Fenrir has a very dark story behind him though so I had to step away from that in order to fit him into the world of Tomodachi Island.

I also had to change the colour palette I first planned. I wanted him to be a dark, blueish, grey but the contrast between the night sky and his fur weren't great enough, so I had to re-think. Hence the fox colouring. And I have no explanation to the stripes, they just felt like they needed to be there.

Now, if you're in the Florida area around the time of the show, I strongly advice you go and see this piece along with all the others, in person. It really deserves that, and I am so mega proud of it! The biggest sculpt I've ever made, and the most detailed......

Hey Peeps! So I've had a little break after ToyCon UK and I am supposed to have one allot longer but I can not keep away from my darling toys! So I thought I'd give a little mini series a go. I love fawns and thought they'd be a great first Mini series.

So this is what's going to happen. I am customising six 3" Dunnys which will look the same but all will come in different colours. You can see the colour range below:

Black

Blue

Green

Orange

Grey

Pink

Take a pick out of these six different colours, but there will only be one of each. Each custom will cost £72.00 with free shipping within the UK and £10.00 shipping for the rest of the world. Each will also come with a one off mini print which will be signed by yours truly. All will be shipped within 3 weeks, and no later than then 6th of July, 2017.

Pre-Orders will go live tonight at 9.00 PM BST over at my bigcartel store HERE! Let's make my first mini series a success! I am so excited to do one and don't really know why I haven't done one before!Thank you all for you support and love! <3

It is that time again people!!!! The 7th Annual Designer Toy Awards are taking Nominations! So if you find that anything that I did last year deserves a DTA then please head on over to the DTA's and throw in a little nomination for me.Below I've put together my top 6 customs of last year. I did make allot more, but these are the ones I think deserve a nomination and they are the ones I am most proud of.

#1. "Reborn" - Custom Bear Head - Luke Chueh

This is my number one by far. This bear head took allot of patience and allot of media. Yeah I used over 1 lb of sculpey just on the wood.... Not only that but it tested my skills in so many ways and made me into a better customizer. I dare to do bigger things now and I dare to take risks. It was hard to send this head off, I just wanted to keep it. It ended up weighing roughly 1.7 kilos!

#2. "Ori" - Custom Bode Broad - Mark Bode

I think 2016 was the year where I did my biggest customs and when I decided that there is nothing that can stand in the way of me wanting things to look a certain way. I cut this poor Bode Broad to pieces and then sculpted her back together again. This was another custom that put my sculpting skills to the test and I really questioned my decision of cutting her drape off. It turned out great though and yet again I grew as an artist and so did my confidence. Now she's my second fave of 2016.

#3. "The Warden" - 8" Dunny - Kidrobot

I never got to say much about The Warden and I never got to show you many photos of him either. I made him for ToyCon UK last year and with all the stress I never had the chance to photograph him properly. He was my favorite custom that I brought to ToyCon UK and he also sold there. It was the first time I got to work on an 8" Dunny, and the 8" Platform is now one of my favorite ones to work on. He also came with two flying Labbits and those little vials in the log and around his neck are filled with real seeds.

#4. "The Toketsu Snow Hare" - 5" Dunny - Kidrobot

Here is another one that I didn't really get the chance to mention properly. I was in such a rush to get things ready for NYCC last year and being part of the DTA Dunny show was obviously a dream come true and one of my proudest moments! He ended up as one of my best customs of last year as well and I am still so super proud of him.

#5. Nousagi & Kitsune - Kidzilla/Gamera Girl - Yoii

Yes, I know, there's two. But these two came as a couple and they will always be as one! It was the first time I customized resin toys. These two obviously had allot of sculpt to them already and I found it terribly hard to look beyond that and see my own design on them. But I spent allot of time sketching and finally I could see what they could become. They are very different from what you would normally see from me, and I think that is why I love them so much. They had me think outside the box and I really had to challenge my brain and imagination here.

#6. "Water Elemental" - 3" Dunny Custom - Kidrobot

This one might come as a bit of a surprise. It did to me because sometimes I over-look how much work I've put in to something and then I can't really appreciate it until I look back at it a few months later. This was a private commission as well and what I love about some commissions is that the customer have such a clear idea of what they want and it has me making something I'd never have thought of myself. The first thing that popped into my mind when the customer asked for a water elemental was the amazing looking elementals from World of Warcraft (where I spent most of my early twenties) and so I found my inspiration there. I think that is just one of the reasons as to why I appreciate this custom so much. It brought back some good old memories.

That's it for me! If you find that something else appealed to you more than my top 6 then feel free to nominate whatever you'd like. I'd feel so proud to make it to the finals again! But without you guys that would be impossible! Thank you for your continued support! Love you all!!!!!

OMG THIS JUST HAPPENED! I'm a nominee in TWO categories for "Custom of the Year" at the Designer Toy Awards 2016!!! I can't express in words how happy and proud I feel right now! All the hard work that I've put in to my toy customizing have paid off!

He was definitely my most popular toy of 2015 but I never thought he'd land me a DTA nomination! I want to thank all of you who took the time to nominate me! Thank you so much for your support!!!!

I am nominated in the PRO Voted "Custom of the Year" and the FAN vote "Custom of the Year", and it is in the later I am going to need YOUR help! As you can see I've got some AMAZING and stunning competition and this will be hard to win, if not even impossible. BUT with your help my chances will become bigger! So head on over and cast your vote today! The voting is only open for 6 days!!! So hit the pic down below and get it done TODAY!

Hey hey hey.... again! Yes the blog entry's will keep on coming cause I've got so much work to do over the next few months and so many awesome new customs. I've got so many shows on this year that I haven't got time to do my own stuff in between. I promise I'll organize next year a little bit better and try to balance things a bit more. But as for now, these three are for the Monthly Custom Series over at Collect & Display! Woho!

So who are these guys then? They are the Bulli-Corns! And what is a Bulli-Corn you might want to ask?! Let's just say that they might be the softest and cuddliest magical creatures on the planet. However their magic don't work unless they feel loved and get at least 50 snuggles a day, and that is just the minimum. Really the Bulli-Corn want's to be close to you 24/7.

So before you adopt one make sure you can give it all the love it requires or he might just simply fade away. But it's now like you can resist those snugly creases and chops anyway, is it?

There is three different sizes of Bulli-Corns. There is:

SMALL 3.5"

£60.00

MEDIUM 4.5"

£69.00

LARGE 6"

£82.00

These Bulli-Corns will be available from Collect & Display on the 26th of August 2016. I will get back to you with the exact time of the release a little bit later. But yeah, make sure you don't miss out cause these little dudes are so damn sweet!!! <3

It is time for my second appearance at Clutter Gallery this year! And I felt so honored to be invited ones. Now twice! And with TWO pieces this time too. I did have the chance to do three, but I totally ran out of time in the end so two had to do.

KUMA HANA

I chose this 8" Qee to work on as my platform this time. I've had this sitting in my cupboard ever since I started customizing I think. And I've had a million different ideas for it, but never started working on it. I thought this was the perfect platform for the job in hand though.

It was one of those times when I didn't do any sketch before I started working on her. So I didn't know exactly where I was going. All I knew was that I wanted her to go with the artwork I had done for the show as well, so I went within the same style. She looks pretty different from what I normally would do. And I guess that was on purpose. I really wanted to try something new, or something in a different direction.

And this is the result of that... A very cute one I think!

I spent an awful lot of time on masking and getting that flower to stay together. It doesn't matter how fed up I get with masking sometimes though. It is always the best way to clean lines and therefore I don't mind the suffering HAHA!

I enjoyed working on the Qee, it is not my fave, but definitely nice. It is always good to work on a platform that is meant for DIY. They come apart so nicely and you can put them back together very easily. Why it's not one of my favorites is that it just won't leave much room for your imagination, it is a bear and yeah..... that's that. It is super cute however and I did enjoy the experience.

A WHISPERING WIND

Now this is super exciting as I've never had an actual 2D art piece in a gallery before and I am so proud and excited about it!

For those of you that follow me on IG you have seen quite a few sneak peeks of this one. I worked on it over my holiday in France. And I think that the feeling I had in me through that whole holiday translated pretty well into this picture.

I could've spent the rest of my life on that patio. I haven't felt such peace in my soul for a long time as I did there. But there we are. Life at home have to continue as well, and I am back now, well rested and with allot of energy and new ideas!

The Kaleidoscope of Kyoot show opening night is on Saturday August 13th and runs till the 2nd of September at Clutter Gallery in Beacon, NY. Make sure you head out to see the show if you're in the area. I am super jealous of anyone that can go. I really wish I was closer sometimes! :'(

This is Ori! My first fully human custom! I did do the Space Crab last year that had a human face but this is the first full body human I've done. It has really been something! I don't want to send her of to her owner hahaha!

I've been working on her for about a week, even though I started roughly two weeks ago. I had a few things to finish in between. She was a "Bode Broad" by Mark Bode originally and I have seen quite a few of these Bode Broads popping up around IG. To be honest I wasn't a big fan of the original toy. Not until I had her in the post and got to hold her in my hands and have a good look at her.

This toy is so well sculpted and something you can't appreciate in a photo. Every curve in her body is perfect and she is so well weighted. Even though she was well sculpted there were many bits that wouldn't work with the style I wanted to go for. I had a long an hard job in front of me. Cutting her drape off was the hardest part! I decided to keep it at first but as I went along it was just getting in the way. So I brought out my dremel and started hacking away at it. At this point there was no turning back and I just had to go with it. Little did I know of the massive lump of resin that was sitting in her feet. I nearly killed myself getting that out but I won in the end. After this I had to re-sculpt her legs which took me an age. If there is one thing I've learnt over the past year, it is that nothing will get in my way of achieving what I want when it comes to customizing.

Her face was the most important thing to me. I wanted her to look like one of my Sci-Fi Pinup girls, so I had to restructure her face. Getting the eyes in there was not easy and this is when I wish I had more than one set of hands. After allot of struggling and re-positioning I managed to secure them in one place. But before I even started sculpting, I had to find a way to make her visor.... took me a while to figure that one out. After allot of thinking I had a light-bulb moment! It was a bit of a gamble to be fair, but worked out! I found a place online that did see through Christmas tree baubles in all sorts of colours and since I needed the visor to have a slight bend in it, it seemed like the perfect option. I ordered two different sizes as I didn't know which one would be the right size. Funny enough the smaller one had the exact same bend as her face. WIN! I also redid her nose and added those big ears. Don't even get me started on the ears.....

Do you know how hard it is to sculpt ears? No?! I do! LOL! :D It is hard. And what is even harder is to get them somewhat symmetrical. Symmetry is the bane of my life. I am addicted to it! To sum it all up this have been majorly challenging but an absolute blast! I've been wanting to do something like this for a long time so when I got asked for a Bode Broad commission I jumped at the opportunity! I really want to design my very own Pinup Vinyl Toy one day! That would be a dream come true! I've got so many ideas and a much better understanding of it now.

What an awesome piece of vinyl!!! Thank you for letting me work on this pure piece of beauty Josh!

Little Bitxitu is finished and ready to meet the world with his golden uni-horn and all...

Just look at that face! Isn't he just the cutest?! I am in love with this little guy and the Bitxitu platform. The guys at FGH Toys did such an awesome job on him and I feel very happy to be one of their chosen artists to work on it. Thank you guys!

I've started working allot with gradients lately and I'm really trying to improve my airbrushing skills. I think it's getting better and I'm learning more and more for each toy I finish. The Iwata airbrush I invested in a while back have been absolutely outstanding so far, but I managed to break a part in it and then found out how freakishly expensive the little parts are.... I shall be more careful from now on!

He came out so well and it will be hard to let this little guy go once it is time. I'd like to keep him forever but there we are, that is not going to happen lol. He is the first Resin custom I've worked on as well so that was a great experience. I've been a bit stand offish of Resins as I didn't know if they were safe for the oven or not, turns out that they are for short periods of time. So here's to more custom resins in the future!!!

I don't know the exact release date yet but it will be sometime in the first week of June, so not long. I will keep you posted on IG! He will be available from the FGH Toys Bigcartel however and I don't know the price just yet either so yet again I will keep you posted on IG.

First of all.... I feel so privileged and super happy about the fact that I got invited to a show at the Clutter Gallery. This is something I've been hoping and waiting for ever since I started customizing. So you can maybe try to imagine how excited I got when this invitation showed up in my inbox.

The fact that it was a Bedtime Bunny from Peter Kato only made it better. His cute style goes so well with mine and I had no trouble coming up with this little Jakalope Bunny creature stuck in a log.

I got some cool leaf cutters a while back and decided to put those to use. I think the leaves are just the cherry on top and really made this custom come together.

The wood theme have been reoccurring in my work allot lately. I think it might be one of my most favorite things to sculpt. I love trees and wood in general and I find them very fascinating. There is a mystery to every little shape in a tree stump and the flow of the bark is so mesmerizing...

The show runs from June 11th to July 1st 2016, and I highly recommend a visit if you're in the area of New York! There will be some amazing creations by some amazing artists. Just check out the line-up...

A week ago today I found myself in one of the most amazing places I've ever been to. ToyCon UK! I am kind of speechless over the whole thing and I wish I could re-live the weekend over and over and over again. What a place!

On the Friday I set up my table after trying to make my way from Victoria to Bethnal Green with a 40kg suitcase. It nearly killed me, but I was pleasantly surprised with the Londoners willingness to help a poor girl with her luggage! It took me about an hour and a half but I made it to my hotel. I only had a few hours sleep the night before as I literally finished the last resin toy at 9.00 in the morning and my bus was leaving at 11.00. So safe to say I was pretty tired once I reached the hotel. But I had allot of setting up to do so I had a shower and some food and then headed over to the convention hall.

The setting up took me forever! I have never fought so much with paper and cello tape in my life but I got it looking the way I wanted in the end lol. Didn't really talk with anyone on the setting up evening as I find it quite hard to approach people I've never met before. Just set my stuff up and then headed back to the hotel only to fall asleep at 9.30... woooops! Really needed that sleep though, but I felt really antisocial!

I had so much stuff with me! More than I thought I'd be able to finish in time for the Con. But I really pushed myself and I was very happy to see it all come together on the table. To be honest I didn't realize just how much I did have until I put it all out. I felt really bad for not giving you guys a preview of what I was going to bring, I just never had the chance. So I will give you a closer look now.

I think you saw from my instagram feed how hard I worked and how much stuff I actually managed to get done. I am very happy with everything that I made and in the end it was all worth it. The response to my toys have been mind-blowing to say the least. I could probably ride on this cloud of happiness forever.

This Ice-Cream Dunny from Candy Cove was the first thing I sold at my booth and to be honest I would have been happy with that. So when one thing after the other just went and my table looked emptier and emptier you can maybe try to imagine this crazy buzz I felt inside. I still can't believe that people want to own my art but you make me feel so damn good. And to meet so many of you have been such an amazing experience.

It's been so nice to meet all of you and to put faces to names. I do wish I had the chance to talk to many of you more than I got to do. Things were just so busy! But I do want to thank you again and again for buying my art and for supporting me and by doing so helping me to achieve a dream. A dream that is coming true a little bit more every day!

One thing I never thought would sell was this 8" Dunny. My first 8" actually and probably my favourite out of all the toys I've made. It was heartbreaking to see him go but at the same time I was super happy. I loved working on something bigger than a 3". So much room for imagination, plus the fact that it is much better balanced than a 3". I could never have put a huge lump of wood on a 3" Dunnys back without it falling over. He is a warden from the Whispering Woods. He looks after all the flying critters and foes of the woods. On his back he is carrying seeds of different sorts that he feeds to these animals.

I hope to do many more 8"ers in the future it's just very hard to get hold of them if you don't want to pay an absolute fortune, which I can't afford. This one was just a lucky hit on EBay a few months back! I'm in love with him.... going to miss him forever! The little Labbits were part of the custom as well :)

I'm also trying to explore new areas like with these two steam-punkesk Copter Dunnys. I love using the dirty look but I need to work on it a bit more as it takes me forever and many mistakes before I am completely happy. But as I've told you before, I like challenges and I need new obstacles to overcome or I get bored. I really like how they came out in the end though and even though it might be different from what I normally do I still think I've maintained my style. The copter girl is also one out of only two customs left in my store after the convention if you feel that you fancy her :)

Now this was my biggest achievement! My first original resin toys. The Baby Colossus and Mr. Bun Bun. They are all sold out now, but that is not what I'm talking about. This have been on my agenda for a long time and I finally did it. I have struggled so much with them though and it took me so much longer than I thought it would, this is why the week I would have had spare before ToyCon became the most important and most stressful week of my life. I'm not going to run you through all the problems I ran in to as it would take me forever and this blog entry is already getting way to long. Let's just say that making resin toys isn't as easy as it might seem...

Either way they were a huge success and I want to thank all of you that picked one up! There will definitely be more Bun Bun's and Colossus's in the future. Actually I am already planning the next Bun Bun release.....

Now I also met some awesome people and new friends. I want to thank Andy (TTC), RX7even, Penny (Taylored Curiosities) and Ian (Uncle Absinth) for and absolutely amazing night. You made me feel like I was 20 again and it's been a long long time since I had such a laugh and went to bed drunk as a skunk at 4.00 in the morning. I can't wait to hang out with you guys again next year. What a night! Here's to ToyCon UK 2017 it's going to be a BIG ONE and time just can't go quick enough! The Toy community is really something to be part of. Never in my life have I felt so welcome among strangers! Thank you for having me! <3 <3 <3

Say Hi to Goo-Jo! My very first Muttpop Tequila custom. He's a commission for Josh who read one of my comments about how I really wanted to customize a Tequila and so he contacted me and sent me one! How awesome is that?! I was over the moon of course and I still am. What an awesome platform this is. It is so well sculpted and the pose is just magnificent too.

Now Goo-Jo is a bit tougher than what you're used to seeing from me. I tend to work with cute most of the time. But after doing the Space Crab I've been so eager to try out new grounds and yet again I was given a platform that gave me a challenge. I'm sure I could have turned him into something cute, but I didn't want to. And I kind of am in a Steampunk mood at the moment as well, which I haven't been for many years, so I am trying to apply that to the things I am working on at the moment.

The biggest challenge with Goo-Jo were the textile elements and the metal ones. Instead of sculpting I decided to give fabric, in this case leather, a go. I am pretty used to sewing but making clothes for models is a whole new spectrum to me. So after allot of fiddling and no patterns, no I had to sew it all on to him lol, I finally managed to make him a jacket! And the leather straps too.

I even made the little buckles out of armature wire that I painted in a bronze colour. It was tricky, but looked great in the end. You can actually buckle the helmet up if you want to, it works :D

I also engraved the helmet with my Dremel. That took a while and was probably what took the longest too.

So here's to another successful custom and to great people like Josh who gave me the chance to work on this amazing fella. Thank you Josh!

My biggest project so far is finally finished! Or maybe not biggest but definitely the longest. 7 long weeks it's taken me to finish this beast. It's not even big but the task was a beast.

The Space Crab Wars is the first show I was invited to and from the second I had the invite I knew I wanted to make something very special. I know that it is a good idea to stay within one set style as a designer. But if I can't progress in my work then I see no point in creating, so I really wanted to step out of my box and do something out of the norm. The Space Crab platform allowed me to do so. It took me a long long time to figure out what to do with it but when it finally came to me I knew it was right.

It all started with a sketch of her head in a helmet and then I just went on from there. I think the first thing I decided on was the colour scheme. I knew exactly what I wanted with the dessert cammo and the contrast of her pink hair. I like the mix of masculine and feminine and I think it softens the whole "war" theme going on.

It was hard though, not to make her to cute and to maintain the masculine part of it. I did work on the paint of her face for a very long time to get it right.

The Bunny Side of Things

Now then.... This was the unplanned side of this Space Crab that I, in the end, put most of my work in to. I weren't supposed to use the helmet at all. In fact I was about to throw it out and then this thing popped up in my head. Now for some reason I didn't sketch it out, I just started building this thing without any references or sketches at all. I'm sure it would have saved me allot of time if I did plan it better. But I just went on with it.

This is the first vehicle I've ever made and getting all the parts together took a very long time. All the bits are made out of Super Sculpey but as the Space Crab helmet is hard plastic it's not oven safe so I had to do the details and put the Sculpey bits together with Epoxy. Epoxy.... where do I start. I do love it as it is extremely strong and opens up many opportunities that I wouldn't have had with just Sculpey. But it is very messy and hard to work with, plus that the long curing time just prolongs things even more. Saying that, I could not have made this little dude if it weren't for the Epoxy. So yes I have developed a little love/hate relationship with Epoxy.

I also found it hard to find the right accessories for him, like the wheels. I managed to get the ones I wanted in the end, and also had to wait for them for about 3 weeks as they came all the way from China! And I'm not even going to tell you about the paint. Let's just say I had to wait a long time for that too.

In the End

I completed these two customs with an enormous feeling of satisfaction! Not only did I push myself but I also feel that I've created something that I can be very proud of and I think it will be a great addition to our European Team. There is some awesome customs from my Team in general and I really wanted to do my very best to make them proud of me. I hope we take home the Victory in November as I think it would be a great achievement for the EU Toy Scene! And I want to thank Jon-Paul Kaiser for personally choosing me to be part of his team of awesomeness!!! GO TEAM EU!!!!

Whilst waiting for supplies for my Steam Punk series I thought I'd finish the Mishka Dunnys that I bought quite some time ago. I also wanted to try out my new amazing Iwata Eclipse Airbrush. All I can say about it, is that it is amazing. Sooooo smooth compared to my old one and such a nicely weighted piece of kit. It rests amazingly well in your hand. I will get some more accessories and nibs for it though so that I can start to work on some very fine detail. I can definitely recommend the Iwata Eclipse to anyone who wants to start airbrushing. A++++++++++!

Now, I wanted to focus more on the painting on these two as the sculpt would be limited. So I decided to work with nice gradients and animal print. Animal print have been on my list for a while, but I haven't really made anything that it would suit until now. I also wanted to give these real bright colours as I tend to work with pastel and quite dull colours normally. The challenge was to look outside of the box and come up with the colour palettes. It is safe to say that I need a kick in the right direction when it comes to colour so I had to look at I don't know how many colour palettes online. I finally came up with these which I think compliment each other really well.

The "Keep Watch" Dunny have been great fun to work on and the base sculpt is lovely and detailed. All in all a great experience.

Kuma

This is Kuma. She's a bundle of joy to say the least. She loves anything sweet and festive and yes, her most favorite thing of all is fancy dress. And she makes all her costumes her self of course.

Gizo

Gizo and Kuma are the best of friends and Gizo loves fancy dress just as much as Kuma if not even more (but hush don't tell Kuma). Gizo too makes her own costumes but another favorite thing of hers is to make origami.

Gizo and Kuma will be available from my BIg Cartel store on Monday the 21st of September at 9.00 PM BST (GMT+1) at £82.00 each with Free Shipping within the UK (£10.00 for the rest of the world).

Here he is! My Seishin Spiki for Martian Toys and New York Comic Con! It is my very first show piece and I couldn't be more excited about participating in "Spiki Attacks New York Comic Con"... I am part of an amazing line up where many of my favourite artists and toys designer can be seen as well. I just feel so honored to be part of this and I hope it is the first of many shows to come.

It's been nice to work on something different than a Dunny as I tend to work on those platforms and awful lot. Spiki caught my eye some time ago and I always wanted to customize one. I have so many platforms sitting on a shelf just waiting to have some work done to them, but I do find it very hard to find the time to get it all done. Work and baby seem to take up most of my time these days but I do appreciate my toys even more so now that I can't work on them every day.

He's an awesome little custom and I hope he will find a forever home over at NYCC next month. He will be available from Martian Toys both along with an array of different custom Spiki's.

I don't know when the next lot of customs will be ready as my airbrush decided to pack up half way through painting little Spiki here. So I will have to get another one. It was nice to work on Spiki the traditional way though and I managed to get some real nice detail in there like the fur on the back of his arms for example. I don't think I would have done that if my airbrush'd still been working.

I will keep you posted though as I have a load of ideas for the next lot of customs. Hope you enjoy looking at Spiki until then! <3

My Little Batlings are finally finished! I've been working on them for about two weeks now. I never thought I would have as little time as I do now after going back to work and all. But I do my best to squeeze in as much toy work as possible when I can. These Batlings are probably the best customs I've made so far. I have spent so much time on every little detail and I kept sanding and adjusting them for about two days. My airbrushing skills are becoming better and better as well and I think this really shows in the final paint job. Actually I think I am ready for finer detail but I need a new airbrush before I can start practicing that. So I need to save up for a bit. Anyway, I hope you like these little Batlings and don't forget to check the store on Monday night if you want to grab one for yourself. Enjoy reading their stories below.

"The little Batlings live in the deep caverns of Tomodachi Island. Funny enough these little creatures are very scared of the dark. This has resulted in the Caverns being one of the brightest places on Tomodachi Island. They have decorated the caverns with bright fairy-lights in all the colors of the rainbow. Their furs are naturally dark and quite dull but they have sorted this out themselves as well by painting each other in various colors and patterns. "Dark" is just something they don't want to know about, so they pretend that it does not exist at all."

This is Loki. He is sleepy most of the time and he absolutely loves stars, however he is terrified of the dark. It's a bit tricky as you can only see the stars when it's dark so some of the creatures of Tomodachi Island has come to Lokis rescue and collected fallen stars for him so that he can enjoy the things he love the most without having to venture out in the scary darkness outside of the caverns.

And this is Pellie. She might be one of the sweetest little creatures that you can find in the caverns. Always spreading love around her wherever she goes. Of course she is obsessed with anything heart shaped and sparkly. Her most favorite thing to do is to hug and snuggle.

Little Fioline. Constantly running in and out of the caverns to collect all the beautiful flowers she can carry. In fact it is probablt time for a little clean out soon, as the flowers have almost taken over the caverns. The other Batlings love treasure and bling, but not Fioline. She prefers to fall asleep on a bed of flowers every night.

And Guster of course. Who can forget about Guster. Let's just say he's pretty loud. Always high on sugar and his laughter can be heard echoing through the caverns. He likes to play pranks on the Owlings that live and guard the treasures in the caverns. He sure is a prankster, the little devil.

All the Batlings will be available from my Big Cartel store from 09.00 PM BST (GMT+1) on Monday the 27th of July. Be there or be square!